'The Zero Boys' (1986) - Nico Mastorakis.

Stalwart filmmaker, Nico Mastorakis should clearly be respected as a rule-wreckingly righteous, paradigm shifting, exploitation/horror powerhouse, but is referenced all too rarely these days. And yet, his tremendously exciting, endorphin-rushing ‘The Zero Boys’(1986) was a not only a prescient foreshadowing of horror’s increasingly morbid obsession with snuff & torture tropes, but a riotously gung-ho, testosterone-soaked Gun-happy slasher in its own right! 'The Zero Boys' gruesomely gives the lumbering Jason and his army of sexually tweaked clones a good run for their blood money!

Part hellacious ‘Hunter’s Blood’ hicksploitation, part rabble-rousing ‘Toy Soldiers’, Mastorakis’s grimly inventive, hysteria-inducing hybrid of copious celluloid carnage and bloody boy’s shoot 'em up is an explosively double-barrelled salvo of bullet-blasted, plasma-packed B-Movie mania all the way from its voluptuously vested front to its sweat-soaked, arrow-pierced back!

Our sleek-limbed, mustard keen, trigger-happy heroes aren’t couch trippin’ zeros, so when ‘The Zero Boys’ boisterous ‘Commando cosplay’ fatally turns into a desperately real, high stakes, death dealing, Uzi-shredding reality, the relentlessly sadistic terror siege brought upon them by sadistic, shadow-dwelling, cross-bow bearing, skin flaying psycho-killers is soon repelled with equally single-minded force! Mastorakis’s supremely zesty, zero tolerance ‘The Zero Boys’ is one uproariously ballsy, gut-punching, machete-chopping, psycho-survivalist, backwoods bloodbath that grabs you viciously by the throat and just keeps on squeezing!

‘Trapped in these inhospitable, dismally blackened woods, if the gruesome mantraps don’t kill you, the terrifyingly tooled up, snuff-making psychos will! - ‘This desperate battle for survival makes ‘The Hunger Games’ look like ‘My Dinner With Andre’...as 'The Zero Boys’ play for keeps!’